Strategic Management Quotes

Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all. ~ Peter Drucker

A clear mission statement describes the values and priorities of an organization. Developing a mission statement compels strategists to think about the nature and scope of present operations and to assess the potential attractiveness of future markets and activities. A mission statement broadly charts the future direction of an organization. A mission statement is a constant reminder to its employees of why the organization exists and what the founders envisioned when they put their fame and fortune at risk to breathe life into their dreams. ~ Fred R. David

Business is a combination of war and sport. ~ Andre Maurois

When it comes to busines ... I mean your business. Always remember you are the leader of your businesnot the Manager. You are the inspiration of your organization, you are the core that moves your business forward ... and this is your added value as a business owner. ~ Sameh Elsayed

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. ~ Michael E. Porter

These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible. ~ Ulrike Meinhof

To know what to do with time is to convert a day ~ Sunday Adelaja

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time. ~ Meister Eckhart

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation. ~ Bill Frist

A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business ~ Charlie Munger

The administration of a great organized molar security has as its correlate a whole micro-management of petty fears, a permanent molecular insecurity, to the point that the motto of domestic policymakers might be: a macropolitics of society by and for the micropolitics of insecurity ~ Gilles Deleuze

They would tell you that governments could not manage things as economically as private individuals; they would repeat and repeat that, and think they were saying something! They could not see that "economical" management by masters meant simply that they, the people, were worked harder and ground closer and paid less!

They were wage-earners and servants, at the mercy of exploiters whose one thought was to get as much out of them as possible; and they were taking an interest in the process, were anxious lest it should not be done thoroughly enough! Was it not honestly a trial to listen to an argument such as that?

And yet there were things even worse. You would begin talking to some poor devil who had worked in one shop for the last thirty years, and had never been able to save a penny; who left home every morning at six o'clock, to go and tend a machine, and come back at night too tired to take his clothes off; who had never had a week's vacation in his life, had never traveled, never had an adventure, never learned anything, never hoped anything - and when you started to tell him about Socialism he would sniff and say, "I'm not interested in that - I'm an individualist!" And then he would go on to tell you that Socialism was "paternalism," and that if it ever had its way the world would stop progressing.

It was enough to make a mule laugh, to hear arguments like that; and yet it was no laughing matter, as you found out - for how many million ~ Upton Sinclair

If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Investing money is the process of committing resources in a strategic way to accomplish a specific objective. ~ Alan Gotthardt

Women have more to offer the church than mad decorating skills or craft nights. I look around: I see women who can offer strategic leadership, wisdom, counsel, and teaching. ~ Sarah Bessey

A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily ~ John D. Rockefeller

Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money, and they made it in just a few periods. Everyone else returned between mediocre and lousy. When returns happened, envy rippled through institutional money management. The amount invested in venture capital went up 10 times post-1999. That later money was lost very quickly. It will happen again. I don't know anyone who successfully resists this stuff. It becomes a new orthodoxy. ~ Charlie Munger

We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted. ~ Trish Stratus

There is never enough time to enjoy what you love. ~ Joyce Rachelle

It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible. ~ Vint Cerf

Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers. ~ Henry Mintzberg

graduates of elite American universities who had little sense of what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of them decided to get a job working for a Wall Street investment bank or management consultancy. If you don't know what your passion is or what you really want to do, they said, then "you might as well go to Wall Street and make a lot of money if you can't think of anything better to do."36 And I have heard similar comments from young graduates of selective colleges and universities. Nobody has ever taught them that what you do influences the kind of person you will become. ~ Leonard Sax

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you have. Take the first step and let the magic begin. ~ SuccessCoach Nilesh

DevOps and its resulting technical, architectural, and cultural practices represent a convergence of many philosophical and management movements (including): Lean, Theory of Constraints, Toyota production system, resilience engineering, learning organizations, safety culture, Human factors, high-trust management cultures, servant leadership, organizational change management, and Agile methods. ~ Gene Kim

There are programs for the scrapping of appliances, but no one thinks about what's involved in the waste management of brassieres. ~ Sandro Veronesi

Risk models only have value if they are used effectively in combination with a limit management and control process. ~ Jawwad Farid

I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.' ~ Brian Posehn

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. ~ Seneca The Younger

You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely ~ Sunday Adelaja

Of all the so-called variety meats, none presents a steeper challenge to the food persuader than the reproductive organs. Good luck to Deanna Pucciarelli, the woman who seeks to introduce mainstream America to the culinary joys of pig balls. "I am indeed working on a project on pork testicles," said Pucciarelli, director of the Hospitality and Food Management Program at - fill my heart with joy! - Ball State University. ~ Mary Roach

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. ~ Tom Peters

Today's Arab crisis is not one of money, men, morale, land or resources ... The real crisis is rather one of leadership, management and perennial egotism. ~ Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

In Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy (Verso, 1997), Kim Moody cites studies finding an increase in stress-related workplace injuries and illness between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. He argues that rising stress levels reflect a new system of "management by stress" in which workers in a variety of industries are being squeezed to extract maximum productivity, to the detriment of their health. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

If you don't know the men at your back by name, don't be surprised if they won't follow you into battle. On the other hand, don't be surprised if they will, either, because there are countless other factors you must take into account. Leadership is a slippery commodity, not easily manufactured or understood. ~ Richard K. Morgan

If you constantly make it clear that you are unwilling to budge, don't get upset when no one is around who's willing to give you a push. ~ Mark W. Boyer

I have a staff of 12 people, so it's easy for them to handle all the management and the day to day at the company while I'm directing. ~ Chris Stokes

Consider the situation: Money that was provided because of social networks rather than need; a project designed for prestige rather than to be used; a lack of monitoring and accountability; and an architect appointed for show by somebody with little interest in the quality of the work. The outcome is hardly surprising: a project that should never have been built was built, and built badly. ~ Tim Harford

We have good leadership only by chance, not by management.

And we need to change that! ~ Amit Chatterjee

Start with very small experiments. When anger arises, stop! What is the hurry? When you feel hatred, wait! There should be some interval. Reply only when you are fully conscious – not until that. You will find that all that is sinful in life has fallen away from you; all that is wrong is banished forever. You will suddenly discover, there is no need to respond to anger. Perhaps you might feel like thanking the man who insults you. Because he has obliged you. He gave you an opportunity to awaken.
Kabir has said stay near the one who is critical of you. Look after him and serve him who is abusing you because it is he who gives you the opportunity to awaken.
All the occasions that drown you in unconsciousness can be turned into stepping stones to awareness if you wish so. Life is like a huge boulder lying in the middle of the road. Those who are foolish, see the stone as a barrier and turn back. For them the road is closed. Those who are clever, climb the stone and use it as a step. And the moment they make it a stepping stone greater heights are available to them.
A seeker should keep in mind only one factor, and that is: to utilize each moment to awaken awareness. Then be it hunger or anger or lust or greed, every state can be utilized towards awareness. ~ Osho

The suffragettes were quite strategic about documenting their events, and there were some good photos. And we developed a roll of film that had never been developed before! ~ Sarah Gavron

Don't depend on the thoughts; "I need more time". There are only 24 hours in each day. You can't make it 25 or 26. You just have to plan your activities very well so as to achieve the expected things with the natural time limit. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can only analyze the data you
have. Be strategic about what to
gather and how to store it ~ Marie Curie

The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there. ~ Imelda Marcos

A simple rule applies: if you don't quickly comprehend what a company is doing, then management probably doesn't either. ~ Seth Klarman

ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably. ~ Tony Dovale

Tough management is a way to approach work. It is a practical, reasonable, and organized way to get to decisions more easily, make the numbers on a consistent basis, have those around you understand where you stand, and increase the business. ~ Chuck Martin

Managing by results only makes things worse. ~ W. Edwards Deming